"We should chiefly depend not upon that department……" — Charles Sanders Peirce
"We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct."
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Charles Sanders Peirce
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45 Quotes by Charles Sanders Peirce
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Notwithstanding all that has been discovered since Newton's time, his saying that we are little children picking up pretty pebbles…
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It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are…
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For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that…
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The woof and warp of all thought and all research is symbols, and the life of thought and science is…
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True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of…
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge,"…
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It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes…
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[For] men to whom nothing seems great but reason ... nature ... is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate…
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Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.
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It is... easy to be certain. One has only to be sufficiently vague.
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It is impossible not to envy the man who can dismiss reason, although we know how it must turn out…
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
— Aristotle
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one…
— Arnold Bennett
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to…
— William Ellery Channing
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Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our…
— Jerry Bridges
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
— Albert Einstein
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what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics;…
— Thomas Jefferson
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